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Hello Woolfians


This is just a quick reminder that our early bird registration ends on 31st May (currently £200 full / £120 concessions / £80 day rate). Please visit our online store to book your place: https://virginiawoolf2016.wordpress.com/online-store/.


See you in Leeds!


Best wishes
Jane, Anne and Tom



The 26th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf | Leeds Trinity University | 16-19 June 2016

Revd Dr Jane de Gay (Organizer) | Tom Breckin and Anne Reus (Co-Organizers)





VIRGINIA WOOLF AND HERITAGE

The 26th Annual Conference on Virginia Woolf
Leeds Trinity University 16-19 June 2016


Plenary speakers: David Bradshaw '"The Very Centre of the Very Centre": Herbert Fisher, Oxbridge and "That Great Patriarchal Machine"';
Laura Marcus '"Some Ancestral Dread": The Transmission of Instinct and Feeling in Virginia Woolf'; Suzanne Raitt 'Houses and Heritage: Virginia, Vita and Knole'



Plenary Dialogue: Marion Dell on Anne Thackeray Ritchie and Jean Mills on Jane Harrison



Plus papers on a wide range of topics:



v  Woolf's responses to aspects of her own heritage, including:



§  libraries and print culture, music and the visual arts

§  English national identity, landscape, climate and nature

§  Victorian men of letters

§  educational systems, such as Cambridge and the public schools

§  tourist sites

§  the literature of various eras, including the Greek Classics, the Renaissance, and Victorian fiction and poetry

§  feminist legacies, including the work of women writers

§  pacifist and queer legacies

§  intellectual and spiritual traditions, and the history of ideas

§  ideological heritage, such as patriarchy and empire



v  Ways in which Woolf has been curated and/or represented by the heritage industry, including:


§  libraries, archives and collections

§  National Trust properties and other sites, including Monk's House, St Ives, Knole, Charleston, and Garsington



v  Woolf's constructions of history, historiography, heritage and culture



v  The representations of Woolf in music, dance and biofiction



v  The reception of Woolf in a range of cultural settings worldwide, including approaches from translation studies, reception history, and comparative literature, as well as pedagogical approaches and theoretical reinterpretations.



Cultural events include: Virginia: A Musical Portrait<http://virginiawoolfmusic.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/events/>
Wordspace Open Mic evening (contributions welcome from all delegates)

Banquet with talk by Cecil Woolf and Jean Moorcroft Wilson



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